Louis-Emile Durandelle

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Louis-Emile Durandelle
Portrait of Louis Émile Durandelle by Louis Thiriot
Born(1839-02-14)February 14, 1839[1][2]
Verdun
DiedMarch 12, 1917(1917-03-12) (aged 78)[3]
Bois-Colombes
Louis-Emile Durandelle, The Eiffel Tower - State of the Construction, 1888

Louis-Emile Durandelle (14 February 1839 – 12 March 1917) was a French architectural photographer. Durandelle is best known for his documentary photographs of the construction of Parisian buildings, including the Eiffel Tower and the Paris Opera.

Career[edit]

From 1854 to 1862 he worked with Hyacinthe César Delmaet and Dalmaet's wife Clémence Jacob as the company Delmaet & Durandelle.[4][5] The trio lived and worked from 30-32 Chaussé de Cligancourt in Paris.[5] After the death of Delmaet in 1862, Durandelle married Dalmaet's widow, who kept the name Clémence Jacob Dalmaet.[6][5][7]

By 1868 the company was operating from 4 Rue du Faubourg Montmartre.[8] Following Delmaet's death, Durandelle documented the construction of the Hotel-Dieu de Paris, Sacre Cour, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the theater at Monte Carlo and the 1882-1884 excavations under the Louvre Museum.[9] In 1871 Between 1870 and 1871 he photographed the Paris Commune, the insurrection against the government of Napoleon III.[4]

Durandelle published a portfolio in 1876, in collaboration with Charles Garnier, titled Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris: Sculpture ornementale, documenting the Paris Opéra's sculptural decoration.[4][10] He photographed the construction of the Eiffel Tower from 1887 until 1889.[4][11]

After the death of his wife in 1890, Dandurelle sold the photography business, along with its negatives, to his assistant and stopped taking photographs.[5][9]

Collections[edit]

Gallery[edit]

  • Ornamental Sculpture of the New Paris Opera
    Ornamental Sculpture of the New Paris Opera
  • Ornamental Sculpture of the New Paris Opera
    Ornamental Sculpture of the New Paris Opera
  • Construction of the Paris Opera, 1864
    Construction of the Paris Opera, 1864
  • Construction of the Paris Opera, May 1864
    Construction of the Paris Opera, May 1864
  • Great staircase of the Paris Opera, 1865
    Great staircase of the Paris Opera, 1865
  • Circular vestibule of the Palais Garnier, 1864.
    Circular vestibule of the Palais Garnier, 1864.
  • Paris Opera arch detail.
    Paris Opera arch detail.
  • Workers on Girders of Auditorium, New Paris Opera.
    Workers on Girders of Auditorium, New Paris Opera.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Naissances, Mariages, Décès (1839-1839) (2 E 558 (85)) - Archive..." Mnesys.
  2. ^ Leblanc, Charlotte. "Louis Émile Durandelle (1839-1917) : un photographe au service des architectes". Architectes et photographes au xixe siècle. Publications de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art. ISBN 978-2-917902-62-2.
  3. ^ "GAIA 9 : moteur de recherche". consultation.archives.hauts-de-seine.net.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Louis-Émile Durandelle (French, 1839 - 1917) (Getty Museum)". The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles.
  5. ^ a b c d Nilsen, Micheline (5 July 2017). Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs: Essays on Reading a Collection. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-57598-0.
  6. ^ a b "Artist Info". www.nga.gov.
  7. ^ Bernard, Bruce; Haworth-Booth, Mark (25 October 2002). One Hundred Photographs. Phaidon Press. ISBN 978-0-7148-4278-3.
  8. ^ Frizot, Michel; Albert, Pierre; Harding, Colin (1998). A New History of Photography. Könemann. ISBN 978-3-8290-1328-4.
  9. ^ a b Hannavy, John (16 December 2013). Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-87327-1.
  10. ^ "Louis-Émile Durandelle". www.clarkart.edu.
  11. ^ a b "Musée d'Orsay: Louis-Emile Durandelle Construction of the Eiffel Tower, 1887". www.musee-orsay.fr.
  12. ^ "Louis-Emile Durandelle". The Art Institute of Chicago.
  13. ^ "Bas-relief de la partie supérieure de la voûte - Vestibule octogone". www.cca.qc.ca.
  14. ^ "Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris : statues décoratives. Groupes et bas reliefs". Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine (in French).
  15. ^ France), Musée national des monuments français (Paris (1994). Photographier l'architecture, 1851-1920: collection du Musée des monuments français : Musée national des monuments français, 18 mars-20 juin 1994 [et] Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille, Palais Longchamp, 1er juillet-1er septembre 1994 (in French). Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux. ISBN 978-2-7118-2962-0.
  16. ^ "Louis-Emile Durandelle". www.metmuseum.org.
  17. ^ "Le Nouvel Opera de Paris- Statues Decoratives, Louis-Emile Durandelle; Editor: Durand et Cie ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art". collections.artsmia.org.
  18. ^ "Louis-Emile Durandelle – Artists/Makers – The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art". art.nelson-atkins.org.
  19. ^ "Louis-Émile Durandelle | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
  20. ^ "Louis-Émile Durandelle". www.gallery.ca.
  21. ^ "Durandelle, Louis-Émile · SFMOMA". SFMOMA.
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